Breaching Extinction

This is the final episode of Breaching Extinction (for now). This has been an amazing journey. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of it!

In this episode, Erica chatted with Anaïs Remili researcher and founder of Whale Scientist about her recent publication New killer whale research: North Atlantic killer whale diets revealed in unprecedented detail

This week Erica chatted with the one and only Orca Man aka Fred Denisco about his obsession with the movie Free Willy and some behind-the-scenes details about the film

This week Erica chatted with researcher, José Ángel Ortega Borchardt about his recent publication Microplastics in scats of California sea lions on the Gulf of California.

Lolita and other rants

This week Erica chatted with biologist Helena Costa about her recent publication Using a consumer drone for the collection of humpback whale blow samples during the Arctic polar . Helena compares the uses of different commercial drones for the analysis of cetacean blows.

In this week's episode, Erica chatted with researcher Jaclyn Aubin from the Department of Integrative Biology, Windsor, Ontario, Canada about her recent publication Fly with care: belugas show evasive responses to low altitude drone flights. Protection, energetic assistance, or social perks: How do beluga offspring benefit from allocare? Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild bel...

This week Erica chatted with researchers Heidi Pearson from the University of Alaska SE about her recent publication Whales in the carbon cycle: can recovery remove carbon dioxide?

This is the first episode of season 5! Erica and Madi sit down and chat about the future of the podcast and the southern residents using the full extent of their home range. If you are interested working with Breaching Extinction please send us an instagram DM or email Erica at erica@breachingextinction.com

In this week's porpisode Liam, Madi and Erica discuss Lolita a captive Southern Resident Killer Whale

In this week's porpisode Madi, Liam and Erica talk about the history of wind farms and their current impact on cetaceans  Sources: Climate Change Impacting Right Whales Episode  Blue Whale Mom Calf Pair Response to Vessel Episode 

This week Erica chatted with Aricia Duarte-Benvenuto, a PhD student at the Patologia Experimental e Comparada graduate Program of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science – University of São Paulo, Brazil about emerging infections diseases in the amazon river dolphin.  Sources: Hemotropic Mycoplasma spp. in Aquatic Mammals, Amazon Basin, Brazil 

In this week's porpisode Madi educates intoxicated Erica and Liam about a variety of animals that get high ;)

This week Erica chatted with Fin Whale Researcher Sacha Viquerat about his recent publication I dentifying seasonal distribution patterns of fin whales across the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula region using a novel approach combining habitat suitability models and ensemble learning methods.  References:  Branch, T. A., & Butterworth, D. S. (2001). Estimates of abundance south...

In this week's episode Erica chatted with biologist Josephine Schulze about her recent publication, Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific.

In this week's propside Erica, Madi, and Liam discuss Madi's recent trip to French Polynesia among other things.  Sources  https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2007/330/m330p257.pdf http://seaturtle.org/library/GannierA_2004_AquatMamm.pdf

In this week's episode, Erica chatted with Mari Smultea about her recent publication Blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) mother-calf pair behavioral response to vessel in the Southern California Bight.  Aquatic Mammals .  Resources:  Smuleta Science s  Mother Calf Whale Nursing and Other Behavior Sperm Whale Ramming a Vessel in the Pacific First Recordings of Humpback Whale So...

In this week's episode Madi, Liam, and Erica discuss genetic disorders that could impact the pigmentation of cetacean skin  Sources:  Fifty Shades of Gray: The First Leucistic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Sighting off the Cedar Keys, Florida, Gulf of Mexico

Salmon and Mola hats? Could this possibly be a trend for whales? Madi, Liam and Erica dive into potential orca trends in porpsiode! 

This week Erica chatted with Italian researcher Giovanni Bearzi at Dolphin Biology and Conservation, Italy about his recent publication Marine mammals foraging around fishing gear or preying upon fishing catch and bait: it may not be “depredation”. They discuss the true meaning of the word "depredation" and how it has been used in a scientific context.  Resources: Marine biology on a violated plan...

This week Erica chatted with Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Erin Meyer-Gutbrod about her recent publication Redefining North Atlantic right whale habitat-use patterns under climate change .

This week Madi and Erica did a porpisode briefly discussing the Ocean Sunfish 

In this week's episode, Erica chatted with William Carome, researcher at the New Zeland Whale and Dolphin Trust about his recent publication A long-term shift in the summer distribution of Hector’sdolphins is correlated with an increase in cruise ship tourism.  Sources:  New Zeland Whale and Dolphin Trust: Twitter, Instagram , and Facebook

In this episode Erica, Liam and Madi discuss what credible science looks like and how to find legit sources for information.  Resources:  Science Council  What Makes Science Science (NPR) Live Science   Understanding Science UC Berkley 

In this week's episode, Erica chatted with Erin Falcone, Biologist at Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research about her most recent publication Movements and residency of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the California Current System.